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Last weekend, 32-year-old New Yorker Mark Carson was gunned down in the West Village, in what is being treated as an anti-gay hate crime.

"This is not the place if you are dieting, looking for romantic intimacy or elitist dining." It is, however, a place for inexpensive ribs.

The nation's big cities are riding out the first years of the post-downturn era with plenty of company - boosting their population via a youth movement.

"That's good but the attacks are terrible and I would want to know why all of a sudden there's an increase in attacks.

Ask five people who have been in New York City for more than a decade what makes someone a "real" New Yorker and you'll get five different answers: if you're born here; seven years in the city; 10 years; when you're no longer fazed by celebrity sightings; when a bagel guy knows how you like your coffee and uses the perfect amount of cream cheese.

Anthony Weiner, the former United States congressman who resigned two years ago amid a media-catching sexting scandal, is officially running for mayor of New York City.

The New York State Lottery announced Wednesday that it took in a total of $7.86 billion with profits of $3.5 billion for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.

The Museum of the City of New York today announced a star-studded line-up of musicians and writers for a special concert to benefit the upcoming exhibition Folk City.

Queens Borough President Helen Marshall holds one of the most prominent elected offices in Queens.

Setting the stage as the perfect preshow for a Broadway matinee, Madame Tussauds New York is offering theatergoers free admission to the wax attraction for kids when accompanied by a full-paying adult and presentation of a Broadway show ticket.

Village Voice as "sweet and inspiring," You Don't Need Feet to Danc e receives its Canadian premiere on Thursday .

The president of a New York police union defended an officer who accidentally killed a Hofstra University student during a standoff with an armed intruder, saying Tuesday the only person responsible for the woman's death was the gunman who held her hostage.

A search for places to stay in New York City via Airbnb returns plenty of results, despite the practice of short-term rentals being found to be illegal under city and state law.

When looking for an apartment in the glorious city of New York, you'll probably hop on craigslist and search away.

New York officials say their crackdown on repeat drunken drivers through new rules imposed last September has resulted in 3,164 potentially dangerous motorists being kept of the state's roadways.

The site where Mark Carson was shot on West 8th Street, New York. Police say the killing was a hate crime.

Don't miss Jane Mayer's feature at The New Yorker , just posted online, on little-known story of how PBS's WNET in New York reacted in showing Alex Gibney doc Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream.

Mia Maestro will play Dr. Nora Martinez, a colleague and love interest for Ephraim Goodweather in the pilot from Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse.

Allstate Insurance Company is seeking to recover $3.8 million against six physicians and five medical professional corporations in its third insurance fraud lawsuit of 2013.

Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered to remember Mark Carson , a 32-year-old gay Brooklyn man who was shot and killed in New York's Greenwich Village Friday in the fifth hate crime to plague the city this month.